WOF 217: International Q&A w/ Bishop Barron
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Bishop Barron fields questions from people all over the world, including:
- How do I evangelize in remote areas where people are simple, and can’t even read the Bible, without dumbing down the message?
- What’s the Catholic response to worry and anxiety?
- Was Purgatory divinely revealed or just a human invention?
- How to evangelize young people about hot-button issues without sounding preachy and condemnatory?
- When praying, should we always go to God with requests or can we sometimes just praise him?
- How can God be outside the universe but still have an effect on it?
- Can you talk about Rabbi Wolpe’s argument against the Trinity, that if God is perfect, how could there be three persons in the Trinity?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director |
| 0:12.3 | here at Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and joining me is in the United States right |
| 0:17.0 | now, although I think when this episode airs will actually be in Rome for his ad-limina |
| 0:20.6 | visit is Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, good to see you. |
| 0:24.4 | Hey Brandon, always joy to see you. Every month or so, we do one of these big Q&A |
| 0:29.8 | roundup shows where we just take questions from people all over the place and sometimes |
| 0:33.9 | they're themed. We'll take questions from non-Catholics, questions from kids, but today |
| 0:38.4 | we're going to take questions from people outside the United States where it's usually |
| 0:42.7 | pretty American-centric. So this will be an international Q&A. I know we have thousands |
| 0:47.0 | of people downloading the podcast from other countries. We see them in the stats. So this |
| 0:51.7 | is our chance to hear from a lot of them and your chance to hear Bishop Barron's answers |
| 0:56.4 | to your question. So we'll just go right in. Sounds good. Good. |
| 1:00.1 | All right. First question comes from Stephen. He's a seminarian in Indonesia and he's asking |
| 1:06.4 | for your advice when it comes to evangelization. Here's Stephen's question. |
| 1:10.1 | Hi, Bishop Barron. My name is Stephen from Indonesia. I'm a seminarian currently on the |
| 1:16.9 | mission somewhere in Borneo, jungle, Indonesia. My question is, how to evangelize in the remote |
| 1:23.0 | areas where the people were so simple and can't even read the Bible. I'm totally agree |
| 1:28.3 | with you against the dumb, down catalyticism, but I'm afraid the people here will not understand |
| 1:33.6 | nor benefit anything at all if I'm using a high level language. Thank you so much. God |
| 1:38.3 | bless you and your ministry. Oh, gosh. Well, God bless you and your ministry, which is important |
| 1:44.9 | and it goes right back to the beginning of the church, doesn't it? The ministry is going |
| 1:48.4 | out to people that have not heard the gospel. Keep in mind that many of the first preachers |
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